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Charles Lambert (author)

English writer

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Source revisionAug 24, 2025
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Charles Lambert (born October 1953) is an English novelist and short-story writer.

Biography

Charles Lambert was born in October 1953 in Lichfield, England. He went to a number of schools in central England before winning a scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to read English in 1972. During his time at Cambridge, he was involved with Blue Room, a poetry society founded by John Wilkinson and Charlie Bulbeck. His first publication, Of Western Limits, was a poetic collaboration with John Wilkinson following a walking holiday in Scotland.

In 1976 he moved to Milan and, apart from brief spells in Ireland, Portugal and London, he has lived and worked in Italy since then. His occupations have included academic translator, university language teacher, journalist and editor for international organizations.

Fiction

His first novel, Little Monsters, a Good Housekeeping selection, was published in 2008, the same year as his collection of prize-winning stories, The Scent of Cinnamon and Other Stories; the title story won an O. Henry Prize.

Any Human Face, his second novel and the first in a trilogy set in modern-day Rome, was welcomed as "a sophisticated literary thriller" by The Guardian and as "a wonderful book, beautifully written" by Eurocrime.co.uk., while for The Daily Telegraph it is "a slow-burning, beautifully written crime story that brings to life the Rome that tourists don’t see – luckily for them".

The second novel in the trilogy, The View from the Tower, came out in February 2014.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1972, 1976, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Charles, Lambert and author providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q27860082. VIAF identifies the subject as 51499353. The Library of Congress control number is no2008067899. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1972, 1976 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Lambert (author)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.